How to installGo to a terminal and type:$sudo apt-get install aptitude python-keyring python-statgrab ttf-ubuntu-font-family hddtemp curl lm-sensors conky-all$sudo chmod u+s /usr/sbin/hddtemp$sudo sensors-detect #answering Yes (default) to all questions, even that last one that defaults to No

Now restart your session

Download and extract the conky-colors.zip and type in terminal in the same directory that has been extracted.$make$sudo make install$conky-colors {options}

$conky-colors --help [for help]

Ex: if your cpu is quad-core and you want the noble color, with hd, network and pidgin monitor and all in portugueseconky-colors --theme=gnome-noble --lang=en --cpu=4 --network --hd=default --pidgin

For a working photo widget you need to specify a file or directory in conkyPhoto or conkyPhotoRandom script in ~/.conkycolors/bin/

KWON PROBLEMS:Lua/bash scripts work with conky 1.8.1, but most of the python scripts still doesnt;SLS MODE only work with lm-sensors configuredThe position of the photo and cover may be wrong bc in ubuntu the space between the widgets is different from Archlinux

Edit: It looks like it was removed from the 14.04 repositories because it's not yet ready for libstatgrab 0.90 API. I don't know if it can be compiled from source instead, but this explains why it's not yet available.

Hello! I am thoroughly enjoying this conky script (thank you!), but there is a small annoyance I wish I knew how to fix.

When using --calendarm, the icon is a garbled star, and not the calendar icon I get when using --calendar. My brain cannot comprehend a calendar where sunday is the first day of the week, but --calendarm ruins my beautiful desktop. I wish I could fix the --calendarm-icon.

Thanks for all your hard work on this. Perhaps I'm being very foolish but following your examples in the instructions I can successfully run all modes except "slim" when running on Ubuntu 13.10 (AMD64) with Conky 1.9.0 Whenever I try to run the slim mode the only thing that appears is the digital clock and load of the same error about Yahoo Weather, which I don't understand as it works perfectly in other modes.

In {options} you have to put the options which are explained in the option --help --> "conky-colors --help"An example for the default one can be:./conky-colors --lang=es --theme=wise --ubuntu --cpu=2 --cputemp --swap --updates --proc=10 --clock=modern --calendar --nvidia --hd=mix --hdtemp1=sda --network --weatherEXX0011

After trying this out and testing it, I can't quite seem to get it to configure correctly. For the --hd=<default|meerkat|mix|simple> setting it only displays HD space for root, and not the ones for my home directory /home/<user>/ because it's only displaying for root, and it doesn't seem to matter what setting I put the HD to it doesn't change to display both.

also the --network setting doesn't seem to do anything, it's not displaying it anywhere on the conky output. I even tried just doing --wlan=0 for wireless interface but that doesn't show up on the output at all. I dunno if I have to do it like --network --wlan=0 ?

Having a problem...I put in all the commands you asked and restarted the session, opened up a terminal and put in my directory and got a result of: "bash: /home/jamietaliaferro/Downloads/conkystuff: Is a directory". Is that supposed to happen? Also, I decided to keep going and put in make, but got "make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop." Did I do something wrong? Your config looks great though. Good work.

I followed your instructions for installing conky-colors in ubuntu 13.04, there some problems :- sometimes it does not start as the computer starts up- it's always in the first background, eclipsing any other window, I have to open .conkycolors/conkyrc , save it again so it's "re-rendered" and back to background- some icons are not displayed, the ubuntu distro logo, the hard drive & the network- sometimes conky colors gets a weird background color, mostly gray- the network section displays no info, gives the message "network unavailable", even so I'm connected to a Wi-Fi, even right now that I'm writing this messageI've been using conky colors for almost 2 years, none of this bugs occurred when I was using it with ubuntu 12.04 and bellow, these bugs I reported occurred in ubuntu 12.10 and ubuntu 13.04

Thanks for all the hard work. This is the best implementation of Conky I have seen along with Pwidgets in Puppy. One issue I am having is that random photo script stopped working and it is stuck on a single image. I have deleted the temp file, removed the folder and reloaded to ensure that when I reloaded conky colors that the image was blank, then changed the folder and while it loads an image, it no longer rotates.

Also, is there a way to speed up the sequence? I'd like the image to change every 10 seconds or so.

Try to check if you have imagemagick installed in your computer;Check if the path to the image directory is correcty in your ~/.conkycolors/bin/conkyPhotoRandom file;Idk what can be besides those 2 things , it's working as expected here...

I managed to make it work . However, the fonts are not showing correctly. Can you share your fonts with me? Im sending a screenshot of the mine for you to see how the icons are (not)working. The green ones are ok, the red ones are not showing [link]

just been trying to install and run Conky (conky-1.8.1-6), running Linux Mint 13 cinnamon 32 bits. I first installed conky and then found this tutorial so installed conkycolors later. I managed to configure conkycolors sls, but I have 3 problems:

1. when I try to run conky, I still get the non configured conky on the left hand side of the scvreen (black window, flickering) and also the sls window from conky colors. How do i make it to run only the sls version?

2. I cannot get conycolors to autostart although I have added it to the startup programmes (/usr/share/conkycolors/bin/conkyStart)

3. I have a partition that is not showing on conkycolors. It shows me ROOT and HOME as separate drives but they are one and the same. how to delete one of them and add my other partition?

many thanks for your help. I will try and resolve point 2 by looking at previous entries but any tip would help!

hey, nice job on the new version. I just upgraded. The only issue I have is with the icon next to the hdtemp. It now shows a big Y instead of the little thermometer. Must be some issue with the font used for that symbol.

I'm pretty new on this. I'm using Linux Mint Debian Edition with Xfce, my sources list is the LMDE offical one for testing. The versions of conky and conky-all are the 1.8.1-6. I have enable compiz with its basic pluggings and cairo-dock.

*I had a problem with getting conky in a black square. I solved the transparency issue than KDE and Xfce have adding this line own_window_argb_visual yes on the .conkyrc document.

My main trouble is than after --calendarm everything goes messed up, the calendar just doesn't show up, the photord only shows the space it uses but no pictures, the case from clementine overlaps the HD part, pidgin just shows up the tittle and the weather overlaps itself.

I'm not sure about the photord configuration... I did it like thissource="/alba/Imágenes/Conky"photo="/alba/Imágenes/Conky/lando_color.png"template="/usr/share/conkycolors/icons/ConkyPhoto" ... I'm not sure what one has to do with the template line

And then in the terminal I get this Conky: your exec value is not between 0 and 100, therefore it will be ignored" and I don't understandpretty much what that means.

Wich version of conky is yours? It doesnt work well with conky 1.8.1 (its a bug with conky). Remove the clementine, pidgin options. (pidgin was also dropped in this new release, the script got useless with recent pidgin versions).